Telegram-herald., 1887-10-17

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saa se-eAelk tie blood II .1ess seaes
But u thls esaasett9a s5als yooag ceilysrts
say . mes is = rig1G % Elzy cards. Is tners
any harn Ia a game x ~n nlst Or sGcarsf
Vel. 1 kuos god neH no play = nlsl All
suehrs aA2 ether 81 ies q gSuae sitAout any
sagers. l had friend Asbo played cards
wigh % sife and children. AMI then az TIA
clo@e said: -Cons. no~ lel ~ hsys prayers-
I vii Bet judge other meas eoasclences, bus
! ted sea t1at cau,ts are, IA nav mlna, 80 a.
- safea ~ Ia tie temporal asa eternal dani-
ll4tsoa ~ sp.endid yoafs men, that l shoaid
I'D sooner sa3 q my fauilys -Conle, lst Us
have game Of cards, taan / woald g into
a menaEerle aud ssy; Gone. let rs have
game IT rattiesna4es,' or latO q eeneteFy.
aud sitting down BY a marble slab, say -
the gray. diggrrs; Come, let us have game
Of skulls Conscientious Young laoies ara
silently saying . me while l speak: DO you
think card playing viii do Us any harmf'
Perhaps not, but how viii you feel II ia the
great day OF eternity, when We ars asked 10
give an account OF eur innuence, some man
shall say % ycu. Il was introduced 10 games
II chance la the year ISL IN Brooklyn, at
your house, and l went on from that sport 10
something more exciting, and went on down
until lost nay business, and lost my morals,
aud lost nay soul. and these chains that you
see on my wrists and feet are the chains OF
gamesters doom, and / ann on my way 70
gamblers hell Honey at the start. eternal
catastrophe at the last
Stock gambling comes into the same cata~
logue. IL must be very exhilarating 20 90
into Wall street. New York, or State street,
Boston, or Third street, Philadelphia, and de-
posting a small sum Of money. run the risk
OF taking out fortune. Many men are do
ing an honest and Safe business In the stock
market, and you are an ignorainus II you do
not know that II h just as legitimate TO
deal in stocks as 10 deal in coffee, or sugar,
or -four. But nearly all the outsiders who
20 there on a little financial excursion lose
ALL The old spiders ear up the ansuSpeeting
fiaS. ] had friend who put his hand on
his hip pocket and said to me IN substances:
Il have there the value of hundred and
fifty thousand dollars His home is today
peaniless What was the matteri Wall
street. or the vast majority who are victim
lied you hear not one word One great stock
firm goes down, and whole columns Of news
papers discuss their fraud, or their dis
aster, and We are presented with their
features and their biography. But where
one such famous firm sinks five hundred uD-
known men sink with them The great
steamer goes down and all the little boats
are swallowed in the same engulfment. Gam
bling is gambling, whether in stocks or
breadstuffs, or dice or race track betting.
Exhilaration at the start, and raving brain
and a shattered nervous system and sac
rifced property and destroyed soul at the
f,- a1rafs
purchase no prize packages, bet on no base
ball games or yacht racing, have no faith in
luck, answer no mysterious circulars pro-
posing great income for small investment;
shoe away the buzzards that hover around
our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go
out and make an honest living. Have God
on your side and be candidate for heaven.
Remember all the paths of sin are banked
with flowers at the start, and there are
plenty OF helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger to your door and hold the stirrup
while you mount But further on the horse
plunges to the bit in a slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which Jona-
than took on the end of the rod and brought
to his lip, but that which God puts on the
banqueting table of Mercy, at which we are
all invited to sit. was reading OF boy
among the mountains of Switzerland ascend
ing a dangerous place with bis father and the
guides. The boy stopped ON the edge of the
cliff and said: "There is flower mean to
get" @Come away from there said the
father, 'you viii fall off" "No,' said he, Il
must get that beautiful fower," and the
guides rushed toward him to pull him back,
when they heard him say, 81 almost
have it, as he fell 1900 feet. Birds Of
prey were seen few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually TO
the place where the corpse lay. Why seek
flowers off the edge Of precipice when you
may walk knee deep amid the full blooms OF
the very Paradise of Godi When a man may
sit at kings banquet. why viii be go down
the steps and contend for the gristle and
bones of a hounds kenneth
''Swseter than honey and the honeycomb, y
says David. @is the truth of Cod "With
honey out Of the rock would have satisfied
thee" says God to the recreant. Here is
honey gathered from the blossoms Of trees OF
life, and with a rod made out Of the wood OF
the cross 1 dip it up for ali your souls
The poet Hesiod tells Of an am
brosia and a nectar the drinking OF
which would make men live forever
and one sip OF this honey from the Eternal
Rock viii give you immortal life with God.
Come off OF the malarial levels Of a sinful
life. Come and live on the uplands Of grt CO
where the vineyards sun themselves. Oh
taste and see that the Lord Is gracious Re
happy now and happy forever. For thoss
VINO take a different course the honey vii
turn 10 gall For many things / have al
mirsd Percy Shelley, the great English poet
but deplore the fact that il was a great
sweetness 70 him to dishonor God. The poem
@Queen Nab mas in it the maligaing OF ths
deity. The infiiel poet was impious enough
to ask for Rowland Hills Surrey chapel thai
he might denounce the Christian religion
lie was in great glee against God and th'
truth. But be visited Italy. and one day or
the Mediterranean With two friends in a boa
which was twenty-four feet long be va
coming toward shore when an hours s1Ual
struck the water A gentleman standing ou
shore through glass saw many bosts tosseC
Ia this sQualI, but sil eutrode the terror ex
cept one. that in which Shelley. the infide
poet ard his two friends were sailing. TIA
never csgls ashore, but the bodies Of two o.
the occupants we're washed apon The eearb
one of them the poes A funeral pYre va
buils en- Ire ses sncre By son1e classic friea6
and TIE two bodies we're caassnseti. Poo.
Sheiieyi he w0ad hare no God ~hils b.
lived and he probably hsd DO God vhen h
died The Lord knowssh tie way Il tn
righesoas, bat the way of the ngo5iy sbal
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